Sentence examples for appropriation of a from inspiring English sources

He is similarly engaged with My Fair Lady, another unabashed appropriation of a masterpiece, Shaw's Pygmalion.

The appropriation of a feminist theme for selling whiskey to women is nothing if not ironic.

And yet the sly appropriation of a urinal still irritates like an untreated case of cystitis.

It is not the psychological appropriation of a role, but rather its physical appropriation.

This clumsy appropriation of a specific power relationship and its application to the sex wars in the N.Y.U.

For this is not the first time an Ai Weiwei appropriation of a Han urn has been smashed.

They began jamming together, originally as the Artistics (later the Autistics, a sporting appropriation of a campus joke).

One man's "fabulous appraisal of halcyon days irretrievably gone" (copyright: BlackCombe) is another's cynical appropriation of a beloved band's image.

Mr. Gray also said that the Board of Estimate had informally approved the appropriation of a million dollars for a campaign against rats.

"Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Theory of the Anti-imperialist Novel: The Re-appropriation of a Literary Form". In Ngugi in the American Imperium.

The university's proposed restrictions come on the heels of the abrupt and unannounced re-appropriation of a student center at CUNY's City College, where politically active students once had their offices.